Funding will support the development of a wearable labor monitoring system designed to improve maternal and infant health outcomes. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s (UTRF) Accelerate Fund has invested in PreTeL, Inc., a Tennessee based medical device startup developing wearable sensors that help physicians distinguish true labor from false labor, monitor labor progression, and guide the safe dosing (read more)
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From Discovery to Impact: Entrepreneurship & Industry Partnerships in Health Sciences Workshop
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tennessee leaders in technology transfer, industry, research and entrepreneurship gathered to discuss and provide practical advice to aspiring University of Tennessee Health Sciences (UTHSC) entrepreneurs. The presenters and panelists discussed the mindset, skills and connections needed to translate scientific discovery into real-world impact. The workshop, titled From Discovery to Impact: Entrepreneurship & Industry Partnerships in Health Sciences, was organized and hosted by Jessica Snowden, MD, MS, (read more)
Transforming Renewable Feedstocks into Commercial Chemicals
With support from the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Cong Trinh, Ph.D. is developing a scalable biomanufacturing platform that could help industries produce high-value industrial chemicals from renewable resources instead of petroleum. A professor of chemical engineering and Ferguson Faculty Fellow in the Tickle College of Engineering at UT Knoxville, Trinh is engineering programmable microbial “cell factories” that transform agricultural feedstocks into high-value chemicals. (read more)